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0037 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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ing locomotive. The houses as h
annels, being narrow streets thro
ng or boughs that the sun's rays
not burn up the busy movement
people who patter back and forth
ing merchants. You enter to
quantities of them, on both sides
you progress through bazar-win
saddlery, butchery, cookery; the
rt of focus of bazaars, and the gr
n open-air restaurants may find
d-dozen directions. Near by are
n brilliant skullcaps, then Eas
n true, fascinating Bokhara alley
omer, are equally fascinating esp
n them spices, vegetables and all
them—and them—so it goes throug
ts of this Mussulman ant-hill. No
seem, but the colour-effects of the c
startling by the backs of men a
At the silk counters are a few la
their all-enclosing cloaks, the larg
ills a great ink stain on a coloured
le windows sewed jealously in th
nd its perilous edge, their unsee
aft tissues of strange designs, and b
d wolves urge a needful bargain to b
so sweet is that universal comm
ession and Desire. The very
of women's faces seems here to be m
om compared with fashion in oth
ries, to the reputation for myst
g enjoyed by Bokhara. Its tradit